The Adonis Flower

according to Bion, is the rose; Pliny (i. 23) says
it is the anemone; others say it is the field poppy, certainly the
prince of weeds; but what we now generally mean by the Adonis flower is
pheasant's eye, called in French goute-de-sang, because in
fable it sprang from the blood of the gored hunter.